Beating Autumn's Game

Fourth in a series of rain poems, experimenting with the concrete form.

Photo by Xiaolong Wong on Unsplash

The wintry weather will recycle itself 
from sunset to moonrise until the lunar year.
Despite October burying the sun behind blankets
of billowing snow slush grey clouds and the eastern coast
within a Tupperware cage of frostbite inducing temperatures
that could rival the peak of mount Everest, well before candy corn
is…